After crashing into the back of a stationary car, drink driver Shane Davis sped away from the scene and within minutes caused a horrific head-on collision which killed a beloved grandad and badly injured his wife, a court heard today.

William Day, 82, known as John, died instantly when speeding Davis veered onto the wrong side of a main road and smashed head on into his Suzuki car.

Mr Day's wife, Chris, died in hospital nine days later from a heart attack but doctors could not attribute her death directly to the crash, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

John Day and his wife Chris

Since the tragedy, which has devastated the couple's twin daughters and other relatives, Davis has been making things worse for the family with insulting Facebook posts, alleged prosecutor Brendan Moorhouse.

One of the posts read to the court by Mr Moorhouse said 'Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with my car, throw you off a tree so high, hope you break your neck and die'.

Davis, 26, of Fosse Close, Cirencester, who was himself badly injured in the collision, admitted causing the death of Mr Day by careless driving on November 14 last year while 1.8 times over the alcohol limit.

He was jailed for six years and banned from driving, also for six years, by Recorder Oba Nsugbe QC who told him: "It is unthinkable that a double tragedy has befallen this family in this way."

The Recorder had heard moving statements from both twin daughters, Susanne Day and Rose Day.

Tearfully, the two sisters told of the devastation and gried of losing both their parents.

Mr and Mrs Day had spent the day of the tragedy in Malmesbury helping their granddaughter Lydia to decorate her new home. Lydia was at the time six weeks pregnant but was never able to give her grandparents the happy news.

Mr Moorhouse said that at about 4.15pm that day, in Cirencester, Davis crashed his Peugeot car into the back of a parked vehicle. The owner Sharon Smith spoke to him and took a picture of him and his registration plate but he did not exchange full details with her and drove off.

She did not smell alcohol on him but he did not seem to understand what she was saying and was speaking in broken English.

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"To my horror he also posted a video making fun of the police and drink driving," she said. "It is just the measure of a man who has no remorse.

"This has caused us such sadness. Our lives will never be the same again. Somehow we have got to live with this. God bless our beautiful parents, God bless them, God bless their souls."

Her comments were echoed by her sister Rose who also went into the witness box to read her statement.

She said she was so upset over Christmas she had to be sedated.

"I cried for months and I still cry," she said. "I don't think any more tears can come out."

Davis had one previous conviction, the court was told. In May 2015 he was fined and banned for a year for failing to provide a breath sample.

Steve Young, defending, said Davis still has no recollection of the crash but accepted the consequences had been incredibly tragic.

Davis had suffered a bleed on the brain, neck fracture, skull fracture, other breaks to the ribs and leg and a ruptured spleen which had to be removed, he added.

Mr Young said Davis did not accept the Facebook entries were all his. Some were on the page of 'DelBoy Davis' which was not his, he argued.

"He doesn't accept those posts - he has not set out to make matters worse for the family," Mr Young said.

Jailing Davis the Recorder told him it was an aggravating feature that he had not 'taken yourself off the road' after the minor collision in Cirencester. That had been a warning to him that he was unfit to drive but he had not heeded it, he said.

The Recorder also said he found Davis' driving to be "not far short of dangerous" given that he was going 15mph an hour faster than the safest maximum for the bend.